I put 3 cards in on 1st of August but not heard back yet, so going to have to email them because there's never anyone in the office. If I get a decimal point handicap I'll be in touch Tom. 😁
it will be your lowest minus 2 (no decimal points required)
Suppose if someone saw the dog at the ball it's a drop where it was, but I think in a medal put an asterisk by the score and let someone knowledgeable decide.
Archerfield is wonderful and I didn't think the greens were that difficult, but that was a few years ago. Have a hit in the immaculate practice area before you start. The locker room has a bar in it serving fruit juice etc and an urchin will offer to clean your clubs after you finish your round!
This is the card at Renfrew. It is really too long for me, but it's very pleasant with its mature trees lining the fairways, and easy to get to from my home. Planes landing at/taking off from Glasgow Airport are a bit off-putting until you get used to them. It was a championship/open qualifier back in the day but 6800 yards is apparently too short now.
yes, eck, for a counting general play round on the golf app everything should be holed, unless you put in an "nr" on a hole, I think that counts as 2 over the net score for the hole, eg 18 hcap would be scored as a 7 on a par 4.
If they mostly play with each other, don't think there's much harm and they might think they're being fair to each other.
Here's a view of the 4th at my course, Renfrew. It's a 450 yard tree lined par 4 and that isn't an untypical test offered to golfers on the layout. I had a first in yesterday's medal when I managed to get on the 550 yard 15th in three.
147 def. Back when I was playing darts, the good players (won amateur comps) would mostly have had a 9 darter and certainly the first two 180s was not an uncommon occurence in the pub.
Hole in one simply a function of skill level and attempts, I'm sure that someone could compile a table with handicap in one column and expected attempts in the other.
On 147s, even today with more players and clubs, there can't be that many people who have ever done it, certainly in comparison to the other two. I vaguely remember someone saying in the late 70s that they knew everyone in Scotland who had made a century!
I've had one for a while and they do make life easier. I was playing a course on an island in the River Tay a couple of weeks ago (pic below) and it is accessed by a walkway alongside the bridge that carries the aberdeen train. Obv I it wasn't really practical to get my trolley and clubs up a stairway etc so I just hired a push trolley. I lost count of the number of times I tried to press the button to get the push trolley moving....
Anyone got favs? There are so many and unfortunately a lot of them have either very little content or don't actually cover the topic billed. One I watched the other day claimed to show the difference between good putters and bad putters and then prattled on about the most common error of good putters until I gave up with it.
This is an ok one for content and somewhat on topic with thread readers.
In thread! present golf hate - insects - got bitten by clegs last saturday now big red marks near the sockline.
Never heard of "clegs" before, apparently normal people refer to them as horseflies. Still, google informs us that only the female bites humans, so there's that.
A cleg is a type of horsefly, specifically the Haematopota species, known for its painful bite and tendency to be stealthy. While "horsefly" is a general term for various flies in the Tabanidae family, "cleg" often refers to the Haematopota species known for its sneaky approach and painful bite
also from google and the last phrase describes my assailants perfectly.
Joking aside Dave, are you saying that it's easier for us high handicappers to hit the ball with the club face delofted? i.e ball more to the right of your stance for a right-hander?
And what do you mean by "Stronger lofted club"? (Sorry if I'm being a bit dense)
High handicappers mostly "early release" which is a scoopy contact with the clubface ahead of the left hand, or if it's level the left wrist is cupped. It isn't a set up issue as the difficult thing is to swing in such a way that the left wrist flattens on the way back/start down and this is maintained until impact but without trying to do it!
The hands forward at address is a logical way to address the problem, but doesn't control the actual issue which is to swing in such a way that a flattening of the wrist is created and maintained till impact which gives the lovely strike no doubt demonstrated by Ralph,
stronger loft means eg a six iron with the loft of a 5 iron.
doobs you will be able to get a really cheap starter set on ebay and have a go. If you like it then get something more expensive.
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